The Panorama 49-Key Keyboard Controller and Bitwig DAW Kit from B&H is a keyboard controller and software package designed to provide robust music creation functionality, versatile control, and smooth integration for producers, musicians, and electronic artists in small- and large-scale production rooms, personal studios, and mobile setups. It includes a Nektar Panorama P4 USB MIDI keyboard controller and Bitwig Studio V2 digital audio workstation software.

Bitwig Studio V2 offers multi-track recording with audio, instrument, and audio/MIDI hybrid tracks. Edit tracks individually or in layers, and apply automation on clips and tracks. Multiple clip-launching modes serve looping and live performance workflows. 9GB of content includes a variety of instrument samples, loops, and sound effects. Support for VST and VST3 allows you to use third-party plug-ins such as instruments and mixing effects. Bitwig Studio V2 is compatible with Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.

The Panorama P4 keyboard controller provides 49 velocity-sensitive keys, 12 velocity- and pressure-sensitive trigger pads, and 16 encoders. It also boasts nine 45mm faders and one motorized, touch-sensitive 100mm fader. There are modulation and pitch bend wheels, transport controls, and function keys, which can trigger MIDI commands or QWERTY macros. Intelligent mapping allows out-of-the-box support for many popular DAWs including Bitwig. The 3.5” color TFT display delivers clear visual reference to parameters, channels, and pages, so you’ll always know what you are controlling.

Nektar Technology Panorama P4 - Keyboard Controller

The Panorama P4 from Nektar Technology is a 49-key controller with a comprehensive Reason implementation that makes it feel like one is controlling hardware in real-time. Additional extensive programming options for controlling other ReWired DAWs, virtual instruments and MIDI hardware enhance performance and creativity.

The keyboard and pads have a solid feel and respond in a dynamic manner. Velocity sensitivity allows for complex expression. Combined with ninety-three real-time controls available at any one time, and cross-platform computer compatibility, makes the Panorama P4 the definitive keyboard controller for Reason and other MIDI software and hardware.

Deep Integration DAW Control

Deep Integration without the need for mapping of the following software:

Apple Main Stage 3

Cocos Reaper

Bitwig Studio

Cubase

Logic Pro

Reason

Reason Integration

One button press completely reconfigures the keyboard and allows for switching between controlling Reason's mixer, instruments, or transport

Similar to multiple control surfaces in one, with the benefits of complete integration

Popup menus provide deep access to all areas with parameters pre-assigned in a logical way

Every single device is mapped with parameter names and values clearly visible in the display

Allows for operating Reason as if it's hardware

Internal Mode

4th mode provides access to all the internal options so you can set up presets for DAWs ReWired to Reason, or to control external MIDI hardware

All 93 real-time controls can be programmed to send MIDI messages in the keyboard's Internal mode

Programming is straight forward with all parameters clearly visible simultaneously on the 3.5" TFT display

Changes made are instantaneous so you can check the result immediately or even program dynamically as you work

Dedicated Transport Controls

All main transport functions are available at any one time via eleven dedicated transport buttons

"Velocity Spread" feature quickly spreads one note across all the pads, each with its own fixed velocity, making it easier to create consistent and nuanced dynamics

"Scale-Function" assigns each pad to pitches within any of the pre-defined 30+ scales, a quick and easy way to change pad assignments, great for percussive performances with any keyboard sound while freely changing intervals or transposing the whole set on the fly

Reason devices such as ReDrum, Dr. Octo Rex and Kong are automatically assigned to pads in the keyboard's Instrument mode with an additional four virtual pads available when needed

Reason Channel Controls

Regardless of which Reason mode you are in, or how far down you are in a menu, you always have instant access to volume, solo and mute controls for the current mixer channel

The 100 mm ALPS fader and two LED buttons can be locked to a specific mixer channel, or set to follow your track selection

ALPS fader is motorized so its position updates automatically to match your virtual Reason mixer

By entering the dedicated Fader menu you can use the data encoder to control pan or sends parameters, or change the fader assignment to control Master or Control Room, all without affecting whatever else you are doing

ASCII/QWERTY Macros

By pressing a single button you can send out for example, a command to copy, move L/R location points and paste commands, or open the editor and magnify to maximum all at the same time

Macro feature can send up to eight keystroke commands in one sequence from the keyboard to the computer

With any one of 36 programmable buttons and 12 pads assignable to macros, this feature can really provide time-saving and interesting workflow ideas

Presets and Maps

Little to no setup required for the Reason user

Presets can be setup for a ReWired DAW, VI or other software/hardware combination using the keyboard's Internal mode

User settings are stored in non-volatile memory and retained even when the keyboard is switched off, with plenty of storage space available

Twenty preset locations store settings for the sixteen encoders, nine faders and ten buttons with an additional five keyboard, ten F-Keys and twenty Pad map locations storing all settings for their respective functional area

Preset can be loaded with any combination of maps plus you can load maps independently without affecting your other assignments

UPC: 859383002152

Bitwig Studio V2 - Music Creation System for Mac, Windows, and Linux (Boxed)

Featuring an intuitive layout that adapts to each step of an artist's workflow, Bitwig Studio V2 - Music Creation System for Mac, Windows, and Linux offers a significant update to the production and performance DAW designed for the electronic and recording musician. Upgrades to the software include a re-conceptualized modulation system with over 25 added modulators, 17 new devices (audio, note and hardware), updated remote control facilities, dynamic displays, and better hardware integration with improved MIDI handling and editor workflows.

Bitwig's recording environment utilizes an object-based system for editing tracks, clips, virtual instruments, effects, and individual notes. Built-in parameter spectrographs provide visual feedback of how setting changes influence parameters such as gain, velocity, panorama and more. In addition to the traditional linear multi-track recording view, the software offers an arranger clip launcher for experimenting with non-linear looping while producing and a mixer clip launcher view for live performance.

The program supports audio tracks with time stretching and transient detection, instrument tracks with per note micro-pitch control, and hybrid tracks that can accept both audio and MIDI instrument information. This enables bouncing note clips to audio in place and slicing audio to send to a sampler or drum machine. Multiple tracks can be edited simultaneously using layered editing, and automation can be applied at both the clip and track level. A suite of virtual instruments is included, as well as full support for 32-/64-bit VST and VST3 plug-ins. Each plug-in is opened as a separate process to prevent Bitwig Studio from crashing in case the VST plug-in crashes. A "Unified Device System" allows any device parameter, nested device, or plug-in to be modulated with macro controls, LFOs, note expressions, and envelope followers, as well as hardware parameters.

Workflow enhancements include multi-monitor support for up to 3 monitors. The 9GB factory content includes 2,000 presets and sounds, such as drum machines (808, 909, percussion), acoustic drums, multi-sampled instruments (Wurlitzer, Rhodes, vibraphone, marimba, acoustic and electric bass), instrument loops, various sound effects, and an Artist Collection Package. A context-based pop-up browser system allows for simple tagging and searching for music content. The software supports many popular MIDI devices out of the box, such as full integration with Nektar's Panorama and Impact controllers, and also provides an open-source JavaScript API for programming controller functionality.

Keytrack: Modulate any parameter by key of incoming notes, with curve settings

Macro-4: Four macro knobs in one modulator

Macro: A simple macro knob

Math: A choice of adding, subtracting, multiplying or min/max-ing two parameters

LFO: A free-running LFO that can be shaped in many ways

MIDI: Allows you to modulate any parameter using MIDI CC, Pitch Bend or Aftertouch data from an external source

Mix: Control a parameter with two faders and a crossfader to create complex interconnecting relationships

Note Sidechain: Allows you to use any note input as a modulation source

Random: Useful for giving a parameter a random value every time you play a note, at a given time interval or to provide some smooth sweeping chaos

Select-4: Select-4 is a morphing modulator, letting you set four stages, with each stage modulating any number of parameters – you can then morph between the four stages using a fader

Steps: Modulate any parameter with a step sequencer – you can set speed, number of steps, and direction

Vector-4: An X/Y matrix where each of the four corners can be assigned to control any parameter

Vector-8: Similar to Vector-4 but with eight assignable points

XY: Assign each axis to any parameter and use as a X/Y pad with great expressive potential

New Devices

Audio FX

Spectrum analyzer: Delivers a visual representation of the audio material you feed it – allows for a freely selectable secondary input, so you can directly compare the frequency graph of two separate audio sources

Pitch Shifter: Shifts your pitch up or down one octave, with precise fine-tune and grain control

Treemonster: Organic zero-crossing amplitude controlled ring modulator with a life of its own

Phaser: High-quality phaser, by popular demand

Dual Pan: Control panning for individual channels of a stereo signal

DC Offset: A utility device to add DC offset to an audio signal, for instance to generate audio signals from modulation

Note Effects

Multi-Note: This chorder device will generate up to 7 notes based on the note you send into it, with pitch and velocity settings

Note Echo: Allows you to get creative with note echoes and loops

Note Harmonizer: Transpose your notes in real-time to harmonize with a chord playing on another track

Note Latch: The Note Latch device will simply hold any note you send into it until it receives the next note - or until you click its stop button

Note Length: This device will transform all notes to a defined length and velocity – in its second mode, it can generate a fixed-length note when the key is released

Note Velocity: Transform velocity on incoming notes using a curve and use modulators for some dynamic velocity effects

Hardware Integration Devices

MIDI CC: This device can be used to send CC data to external hardware or plug-ins – add it to a HW Instrument device to get instant access to your hardware's parameters

MIDI Program Change: As the name implies, this device allows you to control program changes of your hardware or VST plug-ins from Bitwig Studio

MIDI Song Select: A device used to send MIDI song select messages to external devices, for instance to change patterns on a drum machine

HW Clock Out: Using the HW CV Clock device you can send CV clock to audio outputs, with individual time settings

HW CV Instrument: Use this device to send notes as CV and gate to an output on your audio interface, to control analog synths, Eurorack modules and other hardware

HW CV Out: This is a simple device to send a CV signal to an output on your audio interface

Key Features

Native cross-platform DAW (Windows, macOS, Linux)

Intuitive nonlinear sequencing for the studio world and beyond

Modular device structure with advanced nesting and routing

Multi-touch support for Windows and Linux, with a dedicated Tablet display profile